CPC wins Jeopardy: US gameshow contestants unaware of 1989 ‘incident’

Miles Yu posted the above image on Twitter with the following message: “The Final Jeopardy question for tonight. None of the three contestants got it right.” The Chinese Communist Party just won Jeopardy.

Because internet censors block mention of this 1989 date, Chinese bloggers write it as “535”.

“535” was a forbidden term, too, because Internet users have taken to referring to May 35, instead of June 4. Classically minded censors wouldn’t let you post anything with VIIIIXVIIV in it either, in case readers familiar with Roman numerals could decipher 89.6.4. And by late afternoon, even the word “today” had been banned.